A photograph of First Baptist Church Capitol Hill. Originally called First Colored Baptist Church, this African American church was founded by Reverend Nelson Merry in 1865. The church sprang from the First Colored Baptist Mission, a group of...

A photograph of Evans Hill Missionary Baptist Church located at 1341 Tulip Grove Road in Hermitage, Tennessee. The historic structure was completed in 1952. The building foundation is comprised of concrete blocks that have been painted red. The...

A photograph of Concordia Lutheran Church located at 3501 Central Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The church was built in 1937. The foundation is stone. The exterior walls are brick. The roof is gabled and comprised of asphalt shingles. The...

1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks. Original building structures are...

A photograph of the Eleventh Street Church of Christ. This church is located at 1100 Shelby Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. Foundation material is red brick. Exterior walls are brick. The roof is composed of tar shingles. Windows are a...

1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks in each direction from the state Capitol...

A photograph of Belle Meade United Primitive Baptist Church, located at 1018 Forty Second Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. This church was built in 1965, while the congregation was formed in 1891. The denomination of the congregation is...

A photograph of the House of Blessing located at 900 Gallatin Road in Nashville, Tennessee. This non-denominational church has been home to many different congregations over the years. According to the building's cornerstone the church was built...

A photograph of Riverside Drive Church of Christ located at 1530 Riverside Drive in Nashville, Tennessee. This Christian congregation was founded in 1937 and construction on the church building began that same year. Building was delayed due to...

A photograph of New Hope Baptist Church, now called New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, located at 1303 Hawkins Street in Nashville, Tennessee. The church was founded by J.C. Harding in 1885 and rebuilt on the same location in 1973 as indicated on...

A postcard of the Duncan Hotel built in 1889 by wealthy Nashville broker William M. Duncan. This massive brick building was trimmed in stone and occupied a fourth of the block on the southeast corner of Cherry and Cedar Street (now Fourth and...

A photograph of East End Methodist Church located at 1212 Holly Street in Nashville, Tennessee, in the East Nashville neighborhood. While the congregation was established in 1889, the current church was completed in 1907. Built of red brick, the...

A photograph of Trinity Presbyterian Church located at 3201 Hillsboro Road in Nashville, Tennessee. The congregation was founded in 1942 and originally held services in Wightman Chapel on the Scarritt College campus before moving to their present...

A photograph of St. Augustine Episcopal Chapel located at 200 Twenty-fourth Avenue South on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. This West End neighborhood chapel was started in the mid 1950s with seed money from nearby St....

A photograph of Blakemore Primitive Baptist Church. According to the survey form completed for the Sacred Sites Survey Project, this church is located at 2411 Blakemore Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee, and was constructed in 1941. The foundation is...

A photograph of Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church. located at 1107 Elm Hill Pike, in Nashville, Tennessee. The foundation is made of rough cut stone blocks that have been painted white. The exterior walls are made of brick that has been...

A photograph of Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church located at 2624 Morena Street in Nashville, Tennessee. This church is currently listed in the city directory as Ebenezer Community Church. The foundation is made of rough cut stone blocks and...

A photograph of Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church, currently located at 1307 Ireland Street in Nashville, Tennessee, but originally listed as Hopewell Baptist Church, at 918 Fourteenth Avenue North. According to the survey, the congregation was...

A photograph of Olivet Missionary Baptist Church located at 1811 Charlotte Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. Over the years the church has been known as both Olivet Missionary Baptist and Olivet Baptist. The congregation is historically African...

The Little Theatre Guild, under the direction of Ramon Savich, presented the play "Meet The Wife" by Lynn Starling on May 23-26, 1928, at the Hillsboro Theatre, 2101 Belcourt Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee. It was the last offering by the company for...